Jose Manuel Barroso - Quotes

Jan 11,2015

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There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.
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What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.
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I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.
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Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.
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The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.
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In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
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Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
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A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.
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Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
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We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.
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Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.
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Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.
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The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights.
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You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.
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I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.
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There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.
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You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

Biography

José Manuel Durão Barroso (ipa: [ʒuˈzɛ mɐˈnu̯ɛl duˈɾɐ̃u̯ bɐˈʁozu], born 23 March 1956) is a Portuguese politician who is the current non-executive chairman at Goldman Sachs International. Previously he was the 11th President of the European Commission (2004–14) and the 115th Prime Minister of Portugal (2002–2004) (wikipedia)